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The Caribbean economic community will not be able to make use this year of it's share of the realloc

Prices of ocean freight futures contracts fluttered around sideways last week, albeit at extremely f

TRANSAMERICAN CHIEF BUYS 55 PERCENT OF RAINBOWSTAMFORD, Conn. - T.A. DeWitt, president of Tr

The Canadian federal government wants Vancouver International Airport to spend US$68 million buildi

The Industrial Risk Insurers of Hartford, Conn., said its future is secure despite losses on the Phi

An informal meeting of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT, ended here at the weeken

Philippine National Bank, a government basket case only three years ago, has exceeded last year's pr

A federal bankruptcy court judge ruled Friday that Hooker Corp., the hard- pressed Australian group

The collapse of world coffee prices means the national shipping line of Colombia will be carrying mo

Federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents have identified 40 businesses and front organizations

Kloster Cruise Ltd. said Friday it signed a definitive agreement to purchase Royal Cruise Line.<

A leading critic of contemporary ship finance lashed out this week against the growing industry cons

WHEN YOU ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY have to get it there on time, can you call Big Brown? Federa

Nikolai Shmelyov is widely considered the ideological architect of the Soviet Union's economic refor

The auction to privatize Korea Heavy Industries & Construction Co. collapsed Friday when one of the

Either: a big cola company has shown its environmental insensitivity by using a new beverage can tha

President Bush Friday signed a bill raising the minimum wage to $4.25 an hour by April 1991, the fir

HOUSING STARTS ROSE BY 12 PERCENT IN OCTOBERHigher housing starts in all regions, particular

The U.S. Department of Energy removed a major regulatory obstacle to the possible future export of n

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The Indian business community has the jitters as polls indicate that pro- business Prime Minister Ra

RUBBER MART HEALTHY, GLOBAL COUNCIL SAYSKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The natural rubber market i

The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America named a Los Angeles customhouse bro

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Perestroika has hit Switzerland's once-moribund watch industry: A recently launched wristwatch has a

BARGE FREIGHT RATES FALL DESPITE BACKLOGKANSAS CITY, Mo. - Barge freight rates to points nor

A top European Community official defended the EC's approach to standard- settin g, saying it prefer

Congress fudged. President Bush said he wouldn't budge. But in the home of the world's seven

BRITISH PETROLEUM TO EXPAND PLANTBritish Petroleum Co. PLC will spend a total of 560 millio

American Electric Power Service Corp. announced it's looking to buy coal under contracts covering up

The Interstate Commerce Commission has found the Norfolk Southern and the Florida East Coast rail sy

In the economy of the future, telecommunications networks will be as important as air and sea ports,

The European Community is extending its reach into Eastern Europe, and Hungary may soon become an as

Each segment of the U.S. maritime industry must be prepared to compromise its positions if it expect

The two weeks of Federal Maritime Commission hearings that wrapped up late last week showed that the

A Japanese government white paper released at the weekend urged industrialized countries to rely mor

COASTAL FLEET FUELING OPENS TAMPA TERMINALTAMPA, Fla. - Coastal Fleet Fueling, a marketing a

Like Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki is out to prove that Poland's newest ex

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Lloyd's of London is due to announce details today of measures designed to speed up the processing o